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Christine Lagarde special guest in 'Room for Discussion'

2 May 2013

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, will be the guest in Room for Discussion on Tuesday 7 May 2013. Room for Discussion is the debate and interview forum of Faculty of Economics and Business students.

Joop Hartog Dissertation Prize

6 Feb 2013

On January 17, 2013, the Joop Hartog Dissertation Prize was awarded to Petr Sedláček for his thesis “Macroeconomic implications of labor market frictions”, written under the supervision of professor Wouter den Haan. ...

Barbara Baarsma receives NVZ award

6 Feb 2013

Barbara Baarsma, professor by special appointment of Market Forces and Competition Issues at the FEB and Managing Director of SEO Economic Research, received an honorary award from NVZ (Netherlands Association of ...

UvA economist Arnoud Boot appointed member of Scientific Council for Government Policy

30 Nov 2012

Arnoud Boot, professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will become a member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) as of 1 January 2013. He will ...

Researchers from the Actuarial Science & Mathematical Finance group of the UvA’s Amsterdam School of Economics have been awarded a Netspar research grant of €500,000 for the research proposal ‘Risk Management in ...

Sefa Conference 2012: Power and Corruption

30 Oct 2012

Power, corruption and compliance will play a central role during the Sefa Conference organised by economics students from the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) on Thursday, 1 November. ...

Primary school is a fertile ground for developing entrepreneurial skills. The curriculum of The BizWorld Foundation, a national non-profit organisation dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship, business and finance to ...

Inaugural lecture Prof. Roger Laeven

15 July 2012

Financial markets are susceptible to shocks caused by contagion. The mathematical models commonly used for financial risk management, such as the new EU regulations for insurers, provide insufficient protection for ...

UvA to celebrate its 16,000th doctoral thesis defence ceremony

4 July 2012

On Thursday 5 July, the 16,000th doctoral thesis defence ceremony will take place at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Thomas de Haan will obtain his doctorate under Prof. Theo Offerman of the Faculty of Economics ...

UvA ‘Stapenning’ honorary award for economist Michael Ellman

11 June 2012

On Friday 8 June, Prof. Michael Ellman received the ‘Stapenning’ honorary award from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) during a special event marking his departure as Professor of Economic Systems with special ...

Primary school is a fertile ground for developing entrepreneurial skills. These are the finding of the study 'The effect of early entrepreneurship education' conducted by the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship ...

Nine subsidies from NWO Research Talent programme for UvA research

3 May 2012

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has accepted nine proposals from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) as part of the Research Talent subsidy programme of the NWO Division of Social Sciences ...

Faculty of Humanities researcher wins Veegens Prize 2012

US subprime mortgages mainly issued to middle class households

28 Mar 2012

Most subprime mortgages in the US were issued to members of the middle classes. The current perception that most subprime mortgages in the US were sold to lower-income groups is thus inaccurate. This is one of the ...

Three UvA professors named Crown-appointed members of Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands

20 Mar 2012

The Dutch cabinet has named three University of Amsterdam (UvA) professors as Crown-appointed members of the Social Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER). Barbara Baarsma, Aukje Nauta and Evert Verhulp will serve ...